Progressive Eye Care Blog

Are You a Little Freaked Out?  If you have keratoconus and have spent any time on the internet, you might be a little freaked out.   You might wonder if you are heading for a corneal transplant! For advanced cases of keratoconus, corneal transplants are still performed with remarkable results.  If

What is IPL Therapy? IPL stands for Intense Pulse Light Therapy.  IPL is used to treat a variety of skin conditions including rosacea, wrinkles, and age spots.  IPL is gaining ground as a novel and highly effective treatment for dry eye disease. What is Dry Eye Disease?  When tears function properly,

Keratoconus is a disease marked by a progressive corneal thinning which can lead to distorted vision. Traditional treatment for keratconus includes glasses until not tolerated, corneal gas permeable contact lenses, and eventually corneal transplant.  Newer treatments include scleral contact lenses and corneal crosslinking.   Is My Keratoconus Going to Get Worse?  Most people

What is Ortho-K? Ortho-K is a non-surgical alternative to Lasik which corrects vision while you sleep.  Ortho-K can treat myopia (nearsightedness) and astigmatism, and some cases of farsightedness.  Progressive Eye Care in South Jordan is one of the highest-volume Ortho-K providers in Utah.  Drs. Jeff Broadhead and Mike Chism have years of experience using multiple

What is Myopia?  Myopia or nearsighedness occurs when the eyeball is elongated such that light focuses before it reaches the retina.  Traditional treatments for myopia include eyeglasses and daytime contact lenses.   (Word Trivia:  The word “Nearsightedness” confuses everybody.  “Does it mean I can’t see far or near?” …  It took me

Great Vision!  No Progression of Nearsightedness! Meet Aria from West Jordan.  She loves skiing, sewing, dancing, and reading!  When we met Aria two years ago, her glasses prescription had just made a big jump.  She was seeing 20/800 in both eyes without glasses.  We prescribed iSee Ortho-K to both correct

Vision Plans vs Health Plans Many people obtain Vision and Health benefits from their employers.   Vision Plans typically cover a routine eye exam and contribute towards the purchase of glasses or contact lenses.  Some plans renew every year, others only every two years. Vision plan benefits are use-it-or-lose-it — that is,

What is Glaucoma? Fluid which circulates inside the eye can back up, creating high pressure.  If the pressure stays high enough long enough, the optic nerve can be damanged, leading to a loss of side vision, and even total blindness.   The eye doesn’t have any sensory nerves that feel or

Am I Going to Go Blind? Whenever anything goes wrong with our eyes, our first instinct is to worry “Am I going to go blind from this?”  Thankfully, most eye problems don’t cause blindness, but some eye diseases can.  Of course, a few Google searches later, any symptom search can

Alarming Trends Eye care professionals the world over are concerned about the dramatic increase in the incidence and severity of myopia in children and adolescents. Today 1 in 3 children is myopic (or nearsighted).  In some Asian populations, 84% of teens are nearsighted.   Are genetics to blame?  Screen time and

Great News for People Over 40! Many adults struggle to see clearly after age 40 and would like workable alternatives to reading glasses and progressive lenses.   Today I participated in an online education course about all the exciting new eyedrops expected to be approved in 2022 and 2023 to give

At Progressive Eye Care in South Jordan, Utah we are excite to add yet another tool to our toolbox of dry eye therapies.   For several years we’ve been utilizing amniotic membranes placed directly on the eye to give the cornea a rich supply of the healing components that naturally reside

Dr. Michael Chism and I were talking the other day about one of our patients.  It was fun seeing the look on Dr. Chism’s face as he told me about his latest keratoconus patient he had fit with scleral contact lenses.   “He came in now wearing any glasse and seeing 20/200,